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...Spector, the song and the recording were one thing, and they existed in his brain. When he went into the studio, it came out of him, like Minerva coming out of Jupiter's head. Every instrument had its role to play, and it was all prefigured." - Jerry Wexler, Atlantic Records producer who worked with Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, among others, on Spector's greatness as a producer (Rolling Stone, April...
...Wherever you find a police chief who is trying to make a difference, you'll find a union that holds a no-confidence vote. It comes with the territory." - Chuck Wexler, an executive director of a law enforcement think tank of which Kerlikowske was once president, after the no confidence vote. Seattle Times, March...
...Street—just six blocks away. But national guard troops blocked the path, and none could suggest any way to bypass the inaugural parade route they guarded and reach the gate.Leaving the gate, I joined forces with Josh and Amy—a staffer for Rep. Robert Wexler (D-FL) and his behavioral science funding lobbyist wife—in search of an alternate route. On our first attempt we overheard a displeased Samuel L. Jackson working his cell phone over his own inability to make it through the barricade. At least we weren’t the only...
...Running Atlantic Records with Ahmet Ertegun, Jerry Wexler, 91, launched the pop careers of R&B giants Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, made a crossover star of Bobby Darin, kept the Drifters a top act through ever-changing personnel and in the '70s signed the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin. Wexler produced Dusty Springfield's Dusty in Memphis LP and Bob Dylan's first Grammy-winning album, the 1979 Slow Train Coming...
...uphold these ideals in the 1930s, when the Soviet Union began to repress artistic expression. The artistic norm of the day was social realism, which “was charged with the task of constructing representational scaffolding for the projected reality awaiting Soviet citizens,” curator Anna Wexler Katsnelson wrote in the pamphlet accompanying the exhibit. The idea for this exhibit was conceived ten years ago as Norton T. Dodge, who received his Ph.D. in Economics at Harvard in 1960, began a conversation with the director of the Davis Center, Tim Colton. After traveling to Russia...